Reaching sexual maturity requires surviving a developmental window that spans up to 6 years. Retaining fluffy brown feathers past 12 months creates a life-threatening inability to enter the ocean. The ...

The colony of thick-billed murres — also referred to as the 'penguins of the North' — at Cape Parry in the N.W.T. is one of the most isolated and least-studied colonies of the species in the world.

Efforts are intensifying to save Africa's only penguin species after a new study documented the starvation deaths of more than 60,000 birds due to a sharp drop in sardine numbers. Researchers found ...

More than 60,000 penguins have died on two remote islands off the coast of South Africa. It's a truly tragic statistic, but here's what researchers had to say as far as the cause. The University of ...